10 Facts About Robin Gandy

Robin Oliver Gandy was a British mathematician and logician.

Robin Gandy was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing, having been supervised by Turing during his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where they worked together.

Robin Gandy was born in the village of Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, England.

Robin Gandy was the son of Thomas Hall Gandy, a general practitioner, and Ida Caroline nee Hony, a social worker and later an author.

Robin Gandy was a great-great-grandson of the architect and artist Joseph Gandy.

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Robin Gandy completed his thesis, On axiomatic systems in mathematics and theories in Physics, in 1952.

Robin Gandy held positions at the University of Leicester, the University of Leeds, and the University of Manchester.

Robin Gandy was a visiting associate professor at Stanford University from 1966 to 1967, and held a similar position at University of California, Los Angeles in 1968.

Robin Gandy's contributions include the Spector–Gandy theorem, the Gandy Stage Comparison theorem, and the Gandy Selection theorem.

Robin Gandy made a significant contribution to the understanding of the Church–Turing thesis, and his generalisation of the Turing machine is called a Gandy machine.